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Drax chief executive Dorothy Thompson said it was a very sad decision and they thought the White Rose project still had a lot of potential.

Speaking to the BBC, she said: "The most recent effect has been the government has removed a tax exemption for renewable power that is sold to industrial companies and we're the largest generator of renewable power in the UK and this has suddenly removed a stream of income."

"The day it was announced our share price dropped by a third and that simply reduces the amount of cash we have available for future investments."

The government has reduced support for the use of wood pellets, a renewable biomass fuel, that the company now burns at its plant in North Yorkshire.

Over the summer it also cut renewable energy subsidies, saying it was keen to reduce fuel costs for consumers who paid for them through their bills.

"The North-Sea offers a huge amount of potential for the North East of England and today is a really positive day for our region."

""By developing large-scale renewable sources of energy, such as offshore wind, and by creating an integrated and interconnected electricity grid, we are showing the value of EU cooperation for people across the North East. We will be able to simultaneously maintain jobs in our battered offshore supply chain and create thousands of new high quality jobs, reduce our carbon emissions and secure our long term energy needs. A North Sea grid will demand the new cables and marine infrastructure in which our industries excel, and potentially provide a future for workers hit hard by the collapse in the oil price. The electricity interconnector currently being built between Norway and Blyth could be just the beginning for us."

"In doing so, we will also significantly reduce the energy bills of UK citizens and businesses."

"In the past the North-East was famed in the UK, and beyond, for the coal it produced. Today, we want to put the North-East on the path to supplying the green energy for tomorrow. This manifesto is the one of the first steps in that process."

Energy ministers from the North Sea rim will meet in the Netherlands on the 4 February and MEPs are pressing that their 7-point manifesto will inspire a concrete action plan for stepping up cooperation between the countries. Jude Kirton-Darling will join the other MEPs in making the case in The Hague in February."

"High-speed travel may soon be revolutionized by a futuristic transport system that could take passengers on a 700 mph (1,126 kpm) journey between three European cities in just minutes. A deal on the system has been struck, and testing is scheduled for 2020.

The deal between Slovakia and Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), which has slated testing for 2020, brings the Hyperloop one step closer to reality. HTT announced the deal on its website Thursday.

In short, the system would involve passenger pods being driven by electricity through a low-friction vacuum tunnel stretching between the three cities at speeds much higher than that of regular railways."

Probably becos they simply don't know. Or mebbe they forgot... anyhoos afore I forget, apparently all these Trusts and Academy's (Registered as Charities & NPO's) (They don't pay NNDR) Devolution ... the LA becomes 'responsible' & 'accountable' for the DR & NDR). Given that under Twonk Rule most NHS outlets are becoming 'trusts' along with 'schools' they will opt out of the NNDR. Now, say these 'trusts' were to reassess their RV's and then request back dated relief .... under Devolution, guess who pays?

Ah, so ... Google?? Symbiotic or Condoned or Co condoning or summin or tother:

"...almost two in five taxpayers to be unable or unwilling to interact with the government online. The self-employed were identified as a group with exaggerated needs — 19 per cent are categorised as “digitally excluded”, defined as having no use of the internet..."

The UK government still needs to agree on a deal and a marine licence would also need to be approved.

Former UK energy minister Mr Hendry has been gathering evidence for nearly a year for his independent inquiry, including visits to all the potential sites and discussions with industry.

Speaking ahead of the report, Mr Hendry said he believed the tidal lagoon industry was affordable.

"If you look at the cost spread out over the entire lifetime - 120 years for the project - it comes out at about 30p per household for the next 30 years. That's less than a pint of milk," he told BBC News.

"That's where I think we can start a new industry and we can do it at an affordable cost to consumers."

"The Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant is "not essential" for the UK to meet its energy and climate change targets, according to a think tank.

The Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) also said opting for "established" approaches instead would save bill payers £1bn a year in total.

EDF Energy, which has agreed to back Hinkley, said the ECIU report did not offer "credible alternatives"...

Incredible ...

Not Credible

However, EDF said while all approaches put forward by the ECIU would be included in the ideal future energy mix, large scale nuclear generation would also be part of it.

"The scenarios outlined in the ECIU report are not credible alternatives to Hinkley Point C," the company added.

"Hinkley Point C's cost is competitive with other large-scale low carbon technologies. It will generate electricity steadily even on foggy and still winter days across Northern Europe. It will play a crucial role as part of a future, flexible energy stream."

The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) said in a statement: "Our priority is to ensure that everyone has secure, clean and affordable energy now and in the future. This is why we want the UK to have a diverse and reliable mix of energy sources including nuclear, renewable energy and gas.""

Mind Over Matter ...

Ouch.

"The vast majority of miners in Bolivia, one of South America's poorest countries, work in cooperatives, scraping a living producing silver, tin and zinc. There are few foreign-owned mining firms, unlike in neighboring Peru and Chile.

However, his government has been dogged by accusations of cronyism and authoritarianism in recent years, and even the unions who were once his core support have soured on him as falling prices have crimped spending."

"This doesn't make me a drug dealer. I'm a farmer," says Toconas, 45, who earns about 2 million pesos ($640) a month growing weed at his small mountain farm in Tacueyo, a hamlet in Colombia's southwestern Cauca province.

"The Philippines is “gravely concerned” that China might be planning to build an artificial island on Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, as Beijing has decided to disregard the recent international court decision that barred China from the area.

The ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration on July 12 said that no one country had sovereign rights over activity in the Scarborough Shoal, after The Hague court ruled against China in the maritime dispute.

China refused to recognize the ruling, and over the last few days has been increasing its presence over the shoal, which is just a few rocks poking out above the waves.

"The presence of so many ships, other than coast guard in the area is cause for grave concern,” Philippines Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said Sunday after his country’s air force plane allegedly detected four Chinese coast guard ships, two barge-like vessels and two suspected troop ships near the shoal Saturday.

The minister noted that earlier this year the Chinese tried to bring in dredging barges to turn Scarborough into an artificial island. That attempt, Lorenzana said, was dissuaded by the United States.

“If they try to construct anything in Scarborough it will have far reaching adverse effect on the security situation,” he added, pointing out that Manila summoned the Chinese ambassador for an explanation.

Washington has publicly warned China against reclaiming waters around Scarborough Shoal, located 120 nautical miles from the Philippines and some 250 nautical miles northeast of the artificial islands Beijing has built in the disputed Spratlys archipelago. China took control of Scarborough Shoal in 2012 after a standoff with the Philippine navy....

"n April, the US flew three different air patrols near the shoal after Washington warned China of crossing a “red line” with President Barack Obama threatening with “serious consequences” in March if China attempted to reclaim the land.

"While the Chinese Embassy in Manila was not reached by Reuters or AFP for a comment over the summoning of its ambassador, following July’s Hague decision, Beijing has made clear that the South China Sea, which is home to forty percent of the world’s shipborne trade, will be pursued by China.

“We will never stop our construction on the Nansha Islands halfway...no matter what country or person applies pressure,” Adm. Wu told US Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson during a meeting in Beijing, the official Xinhua News Agency reported in July.

On Friday, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said he intends to ask Beijing directly if it is building up the shoal in violation of international law.

“The coast guard made some little trips near them and there are a lot of barges... What is the purpose of a barge?” Duterte said, adding that the intelligence report “was unsettling.”

“They suspect that’s going to be another construction somewhere,” the president said. “It could be a potential flashpoint, this China Sea.”

Aside from China and the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei also have been involved in disputes over ownership of territory in the South China Sea over natural resources."

Cough, just a wee nudge? Frankly I'd never seen such shameful back pedalling .... much to the Leaders amusement...

"Only a few rich and greedy Scarborians, “the Baylives and their consorts”, he suggested, would benefit from the suppression of Seamer’s weekly market. Scarborough’s poor had welcomed the lower prices and the greater supply of food and other commodities the new market supplied. Whereas Seamer offered a free and open exchange of goods from the neighbourhood, Scarborough’s two markets denied “strangers” fair access for their produce. As a result, traders, both foreign and local, had “now utterlie forsaken them but in tyme of distresse of wether”.

"If you've ever struggled to walk across the deck of a boat as it rolls in a choppy sea, or tried to stand up against breaking waves at the beach, you'll have felt the might of the ocean.

It feels like there's a lot of power there too, so getting energy from the waves of the sea sounds as if it's got real potential. For World Service listener Michael McFarlane, it's a question that's been on his mind for years.

"I live in Jamaica and we are never very far from the sea… Electricity generation [here] is mainly based on fossil fuels," he says.

Deborah Greaves, Professor in Ocean Engineering and Director of the COAST Laboratory at the UK's Plymouth University explains: "We've tended to use "marine renewable energy" to describe wave and tidal energy…[it's] energy which can be extracted from the movement of the oceans in the marine environment...."

"A Silver Command meeting is taking place this morning, to discuss the latest information in regard to the flood warning... it appears the prediction is for the water level to be higher than originally expected."

Hi Ho ...

".... Friday afternoon and on Saturday, when the winds turn northerly. The water level ... a meter and a half higher than high tide.... there will be flooding. Sand gate area... all area around the harbour... will the Council be putting a warning alert out"

"American-born Cook, nicknamed the first lady of oil and gas by the City, had been at Shell for 29 years and was latterly in charge of the group’s gas and renewables businesses. She was a frontrunner to become chief executive, but instead Peter Voser was appointed to the post and Cook resigned...

"Now she will become chair of private equity-backed oil group Chrysaor after it snapped up the package of oil fields put up for sale by Shell. The deal will be partly funded by Harbour Energy, which is part of the US investment giant EIG and where Cook has been managing director since 2014...."

"In the late 1960s, Olsen led the first Norwegian group to drill for oil in the North Sea. Shortly thereafter, his company’s rig made the first discovery in Ekofisk, one of the largest deepwater oilfields ever developed. Olsen also co-founded Norway’s first private oil company, Saga Petroleum, and rallied the Norwegian industry to build expertise in oilfield products and services, a course that helped make his homeland one of the richest nations on earth.Since he branched out into renewable energy in the 1990s, Olsen’s companies have invested more than $1 billion in wind power. Olsen is now the biggest independent, meaning non-utility, provider of wind electricity in Britain. Today he’s focusing on the fastest-growing market in renewables: offshore wind. His companies installed one in five new offshore turbines last year in Europe, the world’s largest market. He’s also installing the first sea-based wind farm in the U.S., located off the coast of Rhode Island."

t'was Sir Erik Ohlson, Sweden. "In 1902, he emigrated to Hull, and established the firm of Ohlson & Co, shipowners and brokers, coal exporters, and timber importers. He was knighted in 1915 and created a Baronet of Scarborough in the 1920 New Year Honours for his efforts to bring Sweden into the British camp during the First World War)

"NASA wants to create the coolest spot in the universe to better understand matter and the fundamental nature of gravity.

While understanding atoms behave in surprising ways at super-low temperatures, NASA has never before created or observed this behaviour in space.

As such, the space agency will be sending an ice chest-sized box to the International Space Station, where Nobel prize winner Eric Cornell and other scientists will conduct experiments.

The technology, known as the Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL), works by using lasers, a vacuum chamber and an electromagnetic “knife” to freeze gas atoms to a mere billionth of a degree above absolute zero — more than 100 million times colder than the depths of space.

By creating these extremely low temperatures, NASA is able to develop what is known as Bose-Einstein condensate — a state in which atoms move in with one another in wave form, opposed to individual particles..."